Socrates was a classical Greek philosopher who was credited as one of the founders of Western philosophy. He was born in 470 BC and died in 399 BC at the age of 71. Socrates's approach to philosophy is known as the Socratic Method. He would ask people a series of questions that would force them to question their own beliefs and the validity of those beliefs. The Socratic Method is still strongly felt today and is called the Scientific Method. The first step is forming your hypothesis which is very similar to Socrates's method. The development of the Socratic Method is one of Socrates's most enduring contributions to the development of Western philosophy. It is not known if he had any other jobs other than philosophy and he is not known for any writings. We know about the existence of Socrates through the writings of his students Plato and Xenophon. Socrates is still important today because of his many contributions in the field of epistemology and because of the many influences he made to western philosophy.
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